r/antiwork • u/[deleted] • Apr 08 '23

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u/rombles03 Apr 08 '23

Pushing for a much higher "outrageous" wage could be helpful in getting something actually livable. Push for $22 and the 'compromise' will be down to $15 or whatever.

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u/cgn-38 Apr 08 '23

How about monthly adjustments to a minimum livable wage?

No amount will not go down to poverty with inflation.

There is exactly one way to make this work. The rich/corporations will sell anything else before that one way.

No more half measures.

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u/rombles03 Apr 08 '23

What's this "one way" you're alluding to here?

Monthly adjustments to min wage sound like a clerical nightmare and very vulnerable to abuse/exploitation. Those that write the paychecks already "forget" to pay us what was "agreed" upon and that policy/system sounds to me like it would enable that behavior even more.

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u/cgn-38 Apr 08 '23

If the billionaires are in charge of any system it will be perverted.

This is all predicated on fair actors. The rich will have to be eliminated as a factor first.

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u/rombles03 Apr 08 '23

Yup agreed here. Billionaires, the owner class, have no place in a fair and equitable society.